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http://rochester.patch.com/articles/not-a-proud-moment-for-education-school-board-says-before-budget-approval#comment_986150
http://rochester.patch.com/articles/not-a-proud-moment-for-education-school-board-says-before-budget-approval#comment_986150
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Comment 20 (Reply)
Mr. Reno,
The article at the top of the page is titled “Not a ‘Proud Moment’ for Education, Board Says Before Budget Approval”.
I have read the article several times. The moment is as poignant as the title says, and I sympathize with the frustrations of many that are expressed throughout the article. Maybe the Governor and the Republican dominated legislature are proud of themselves that they misappropriated education funds to corporate interests and left their constituents to fight it out among themselves for the remainder that was left. But how could we be proud of ourselves that we let this happen?
But your first post dismissed the moment of the occasion and set off on a tangent of your own. As for the rest of the thread, all and sundry conducted themselves in the usual manner, raising the topics that engage their several interests in more or less free association with the article or the last subject mentioned.
I can't imagine why it should be any other way. No resolutions will be passed here. No actions will be taken in anything but tangential relation to what is discussed here.
http://rochester.patch.com/articles/not-a-proud-moment-for-education-school-board-says-before-budget-approval#comment_986490
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Comment 21 (Reply)
Mr. Reno (cont.),
The teachers will keep trying to do the jobs they were hired to do until they are utterly prevented. Same for the other staff. The school board will keep trying to do the job they were elected to do with the resources they were given. As a general rule, school boards and teachers are more open to input from their clients than any other set of officeholders or professionals I have ever run across, but I can't see any way that folks with real jobs to do could implement the irresolutions of this our beloved but very motley crew. So I can't imagine that being our job.
All we can do here is try to educate ourselves about the current state of things, by sharing our scattered bits of information and opinion, and that may help us do our job as citizens a little better on the next high-stakes test of our civic performance.
http://rochester.patch.com/articles/not-a-proud-moment-for-education-school-board-says-before-budget-approval#comment_986503
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